self renewal

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— André Gide, 1925

We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.

If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing so... See more

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”

-Wilde

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

Authenticity is doing and saying what feels right to you in all moments. You have no judgement of yourself. You don’t overthink, perform, or strategize to get people to receive you in a specific way. You understand that your real tribe will stay, and the rest will fall away.

The goal isn’t money; the goal is to live a thrilling adventure that you’re going to enjoy anyway, and potentially get rich accidentally during the process.

“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.” —Ram Dass

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke